The goal of this aspect of the class is to document your work in a way that is suitable for publication. The proposal, reviews, and reports should build upon each other incrementally until the final report is done.

This reporting is not a substitute for a good lab notebook!

Your report must be written in latex. You will need to turn in the latex source, bibliography, and pdf file. The report must be written using an IEEE two column format suitable for a conference or journal paper.

The proposal will logically contain two parts:

1. A technical paper that you could publish in a workshop that is missing the technical body of the paper.
2. Proposal design and implementation details. If this is carried out as described it will result in the technical body of the paper next semester.

Presentations and written documents will be graded as follows:

Content	50%
Clarity	20%
Organization	10%
Conciseness	10%
Writing and Presentation quality	10%

Refer to the proposal anatomy and proposal writing presentations for more details on what is expected in each section of the report and presentation.

Initial Project Proposal and Presentation

The proposal should be no more than one page and the initial presentation will not need slides. Discuss and motivate your project in a very short pitch as if the class were venture capital investors who may invest in your project.

The following will be part of your initial proposal. This will be included in the full technical paper that is prepared by the end of the semester:
• Title information (title of project, group members, affiliation)
• Abstract (brief summary of project and deliverables your mother could understand)
• First half of the Introduction. Include the motivation but not any related background work up to this point.
Also include:
• Scope of the project, design approach, and estimate of design size
• Estimate of the tasks and milestones mapped to team members with target completion dates

Intermediate Proposal and Presentation

The proposal should be approximately 2 to 4 pages and the presentation ten minutes.

At this stage you should have studied and refined your project to the point where you have a better background, understanding of the tasks and scope, well defined interfaces, delivery dates, and risks. This report will add to the previous report and focus on risks, interfaces, and roles of the team members.

You will continue to complete your "technical paper" part by adding:
• Complete introduction
  • Background (related work and references)
  • Proposed work
    Include a very clear description of your baseline deliverables and stretch goals. This will define how you will be graded next semester!
  • Project Demonstration
• Initial bibliography
You will also add details to the "proposal" part showing that you understand the problem and have a maturing plan for completion by including:
• Project Tasks
• What components will be purchased and those to be built
• Required Resources
• Task Interfaces
• Testing and integration strategy
• Schedule and Milestones
• Preliminary risk assessment (mainly note issues you feel have yellow or red risk levels and mitigation plan)
• Preliminary parts list, both software and hardware (no vendor information required at this point)

Final Proposal and Presentation

This should be a mature proposal that you should be able to take to a boss at work, venture capitalists, etc. Your proposal will also define the contract for your grade next semester based on the deliverables you claim you will complete.

The final proposal will contain approximately 5 to 8 pages and the final presentation will be approximately 15 minutes.

The technical paper will be improved by adding:
• The summary of what you expect to show
The technical proposal aspect will be improved:
• Complete parts list with vendor name and information
• List of mentors and other resources
• Full risk assessment and mitigation plan
• Final milestones assigned to team members
• Current status of the project - any engineering deliverables so far
• Proposal summary including any lessons learned up to this point - either management, team, or engineering.